Yes! My parents and family were stocked up in their cottages in a remote area...I was downtown counting down the new year with friends.Does anyone else remember the Y2K scare?
22 years ago I sat at home on-call, waiting for Armageddon to happen with my company's mainframe. 22 years ago!
Happy New Year!
I recall journalists struggling to hide their disappointment on January 1 2020.
Very poorly written by someone who does not understand very much about that which they are writing.Somewhat related.
I’m not in IT, but I remember seeing an IT magazine article that discussed the F-22 issue in detail as a lesson for software coders.
How A Simple Bug Paralyzed A US Warship And A US Fighter Jet
Divide by Zero error and a dateline jump caused two of the most iconic computer bugs in US military historymedium.com
I just picked one of the many articles about the F-22 incident. That one was pretty serious, but that’s why we do deployments. To work out bugs. Fortunately, it was peacetime conditions the first time.Very poorly written by someone who does not understand very much about that which they are writing.
two planes on either side of the international dateline will not be one at midnight and the other at mid-noon, they will both be
at midnight with different dates.
The ship issue was not as severe as she suggests and did not need help to get back to port. Also, other systems that were reported to be shut down (such as CRP Propellers) were only out for a very short time.